United Nations to Hand Out Hundreds of Millions in Cash to U.S.-Bound Immigrants in 2023

Center for Immigration Studies ^ | January 9, 2023 | Todd Bensman

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...a United Nations program that, unknown to most Americans, has been showering millions of dollars in cash to help foreign nationals on their way to cross the U.S. southern border.

In late 2021 and early 2022, the UN program drew outrage among advocates of regular immigration law enforcement, including congressional Republicans of border states, after they learned, in part from Center for Immigration Studies video, photos, and analysis, that UN debit cards and vouchers for transportation, shelter, and medical and legal advice to gain asylum “protection” all along Latin America’s migration trails were easing travel in the most voluminous ongoing mass migration in American history.

The “Regional Refugee and Migrant Response Plan” for 2023-2024, coordinated by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM), both of which receive substantial annual U.S. taxpayer contributions, calls for a quarter of the $1.72 billion it wants for 2023 — some $450 million — to go directly as cash or cash equivalents to “migrants and refugees” on the move throughout Latin America.

All the planning and money handouts happen under the UN-coordinated “Inter-Agency Coordination Platform for Refugees and Migrants”, a network of some 228 non-profit entities and religious institutions established in 2018 that hands the money out or delivers other comforting, perhaps even enticing, services (p. 268 of the downloadable report lists the current participating organizations and their “financial requirements”).

“Cash Working Groups” made up of more than 50 of the non-profit migrant advocate organizations will distribute the $450 million as “Cash and Voucher Assistance” (CVA) or “Multipurpose Cash Assistance” (MCA) to those paused outside their home countries and contemplating journeys or actually moving already along

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The document explains that it would pay “long distance transportation” costs for 158,700 migrants and refugees who need to move within a country from “isolated and/or border areas” to other border crossings or areas where they can access “healthcare and protection, and to institutions to regularize their situation and/or access documentation” so that they may “continue transiting to where they can safely access a third country regularly”.

“These activities will promote safe, dignified and informed movements that mitigate protection risks on the roads and in the provision of goods and services,” the document states.

The document calls for another $130 million to help shelter 586,500 people in the 17-nation region. “Cash transfer programs” will pay, in part, for “immediate emergency shelter needs of refugees and migrants along the borders and in isolated areas.”

What kind of shelters?

Collective ones, but also hotel and hostel rooms for, among others, “thousands of refugees and migrants in-transit towards the U.S.” Other monies will support rent and utility payments.

Other monies will fund lawyers and legal services to help traveling immigrants access “protection”, meaning asylum or humanitarian parole offered by the United States. “CVA interventions will cover the costs related to accessing legal documentation or regularization services” in Mexico, for instance, evidently for the legal trainings and services that are going to “support refugees and migrants in accessing asylum and migratory regularization pathways”.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Americans need to get together and come up with a way to get NATO into a pissin’ contest with the U.N. A little shootin’ war would be nice.

[Fungi]

Where did the UN get the money and is it theirs to give away?

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The new UN strategy document, however, says the United States and the U.S.-supported UN are far and away the largest contributors to the new response plans, with a combined funding of more than $765 million in 2022.

Of that, the U.S. gave $391.5 million.

[Dapper 26]

The members of the UN have always been mostly unelected dictators from different countries. Their purpose was to rip off money for themselves mostly from the US, the largest funder of the UN. It’s time to cut ourselves out of that criminal establishment.

[Salamander]

I’m sitting here with one space heater, 3 Sherpa blankets and 3 hoodies and two pair of socks and a hat on just to not freeze because I can’t afford a $300 light bill.

The invaders are sleeping in nice hotels.

Tell me this is right.

[SaveFerris]

Sounds very Global Citizen of them

[EinNYC]

Why should Americans have to PAY for using their country as a dumping ground for the world’s flotsam and jetsam? U.S. out of the U.N. U.N. out of the U.S.

[telescope115]

We are the hosts for a parasitic organization that is actively working to destroy us. Enough!

Too bad one of those airplanes on 9/11 didn’t take out the UN instead.